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Been thinking about how Nolan was coded differently in the culture war (think 'Nolan bro') until the recent Woke Odyssey palaver. whereas casting a white Heathcliff put Fennel!Heights in the wrong trenches. feels like some unseen celestial figures just traded them, like top trumps cards

this rules

It is very much not in the spirit of Emily Wilson’s approach to translating The Odyssey to treat Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey as if it were a definitive last word on translating The Odyssey

rip odysseus (calypso era) you would have loved Once in a Lifetime ("this is not my beautiful house / this is not my beautiful wife / letting the days go by / let the water hold me down")

fuck yeah

there's omens and then there's this

I'm not who you should ask how to reform the English curriculum but I do think that we could find other texts to, like, inspire a lifelong love of reading

Yeah I think I was only assigned good texts, but I remember finding Catcher in the Rye and The Grass is Singing quite grating. although I've warmed to Catcher.

read 1984 for the Leaving Cert and I think it's still in my top 10

possibly the creation of the nuclear bomb, depending on how things go

"I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me" has a reverse body count

Good news!!! Phobosplunker, as well as a load of fantastic shorts and films, will be screening in Manchester this AUGUST as part of the TITE takeover :3 See you at SCENE Manchester LGBTQ+ Film and TV festival Check out SCENE + TITE for full info Hehe

did you?

Yeah he (and his 200 ghostwriters) have done good work in the past but he's just sitting back now and Görannson feels like a Williams/Morricone-type generational master on the rise

yes but wear sunscreen! we're here for ageing disgracefully not for melanomas

that's wild! i found laser WAY easier. did a year of zappies but couldn't bear it in the end

Season 2 of Galaxy Fest is here!!! More adventures with the crew of the Big SISS, as they befriend a sentient pile of goo, explore mysterious signals from Deep Space, & hire a robot who "does all your thinking for you" The cast of young superstars have done us so proud. www.rte.ie/radio/podcas...

Amnesty International put out a major report documenting the influence of UK based anti trans gender critical organizations and their funding. Within hours, GC groups threatened defamation lawsuits and Amnesty was forced to pull it down. Proving the point they're anti rights. Anyways, here it is.

they’ve just broken ground on a massive new Cursed Tomb near me. When it’s finished it’ll cause the river to dry up and blight the very land around it, and there will be a constant wailing noise that drives you insane? It’s critical though to power the ghouls and wraiths transforming our economy